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FROM THE SUN HERALD LETTERS TO THE EDITOR PAGE
BY LOUIE MILLER,
STATE DIRECTOR, MISSISSIPPI SIERRA CLUB
Right now, our Public Service Commission is deciding on Mississippi's energy future. If the commission moves forward with its proposed rooftop solar or "net-metering" program, our neighborhoods could power our homes, boost our economy and provide us with energy independence. READ MORE

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Mississippi is one of only six states with no net metering policy! Tell the PSC to adopt strong pro-solar policies like net metering. We need to add your voice to the list of public supporters of this crucial step toward a clean energy future for our state. Send in your comment now!

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Cue the Etta James record on the turntable. Press play on the Beyonce download.
Because, at last, the Mississippi Public Service Commision has issued a set of draft net metering rules and standards. We will be reviewing the rules and standards for the next 2 months, and will be posting regularly on this issue, so watch this space. Would you like to download the document?
PSC DRAFT NET METERING RULES

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FROM MARKETPLACE
by Laine Kaplan-Levenson
Thursday, April 9, 2015
You think a seafood dock smells bad? Try walking in to the New Orleans Fish House. More than a dozen workers in white aprons and knee-high rubber boots feverishly sharpen knives to clean puppy drum and hand-cut tuna steaks.
Michael Ketchum is director for national retail sales at the Fish House. He convinces grocery stores and restaurants that Gulf seafood is the way to go.
"We supply almost every restaurant in the city: We supply Acme Oyster House, Commander's Palace, Emeril's, the Brennans' restaurants. We're running 300 to 500 deliveries a day." READ MORE

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SPECIAL FROM THE CLARION LEDGER
BY CHARLIE MITCHELL
April 14, 2015
OXFORD – Among Mississippi’s abundant blessings — and the state is abundantly blessed — is sunshine. The Magnolia State has great soil, lush forests, abundant wildlife and delicious fresh food from gardens, lakes and the Gulf of Mexico.

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BY PAUL HAMPTON/SUN HERALD
Hattiesburg oilman Tom Blanton on Thursday filed his latest response in a long-running battle with Mississippi Power over its 2013 rate increase. "There is no legal or factual basis for the Court to reverse its position and rule in Mississippi Power Company's favor," the response begins. "The majority and concurring opinions issued by the Court on February 12, 2015, are cogent, tightly considered opinions."

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"This is as exciting as the Public Service Commission gets." NRDC attorney Raya Salter
— From Mother Jones, Article by Tim McDonnell
New York wants to get serious about solar power. The state has a goal to cut its greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, and it's already among the nation's solar leaders. New York ranks ninth overall for total installed solar, and in 2013 alone it added enough to power more than 10,000 homes.

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Author Naomi Klein has become the best-known voice of an idea that few mainstream green groups dare to embrace: that the only way to stop climate change is to overhaul the "savagely unjust" free market engine that drives it. In her latest book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (Simon and Schuster, 2014), Klein argues with passion and scholastic rigor that "our economic system and our planetary system are now at war."READ MORE

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JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI (WTVA)
The Mississippi Public Service Commission has approved construction of a solar energy project in Chickasaw County. The Commodore Solar Farm will use nearly 9,800 solar panels to generate up to three million watts of electricIty.